{"id":3773,"date":"2015-12-23T07:32:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T06:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/?p=3773"},"modified":"2015-12-23T07:32:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T06:32:04","slug":"personal-2015-whisky-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/personal-2015-whisky-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"My (very) personal 2015 Whisky Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve never been a huge fan of “top 5\/10\/20” lists, especially when it comes to something as subjective as whisky. Here’s therefore more of a “the best\/surprising\/original\/waow whiskies I had this year” list or “You can’t imagine the inner struggle with myself while putting this list together” Whisky Awards (ok, then you may ask why I decided to come up with this article if it was as painful as I describe, legit question. Maybe because I’m a complete human contradiction…). <\/em><\/p>\n

Anyway, here are the 5 whiskies which made my year (amongst, many, many, many others – but hey, some treasures need to be kept secret…)<\/em>!<\/p>\n

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1.\u00a0Glenfarclas 47 Years Old – 1966 Fino Casks<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Glenfarclas are well known for their well-Sherried whiskies, as they often use casks which have previously held Oloroso Sherry. However, this 1966 vintage is a bit special, as the three casks used (#4194, #4195 and #4197) previously held Fino Sherry, and matured the Glenfarclas whisky for a massive 47 years! 1444 bottles were produced, and come accompanied by a handsome black leather box adorned with a silver coin featuring the portrait of John Grant, who purchased the distillery in 1865.<\/p>\n

This release marks the start of a series of six bottlings from the Glenfarclas distillery – one for each of the six generations of the family behind Glenfarclas. What does the future hold for this series? We’re excited to find out!<\/p>\n

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2. This Is Not A Luxury Whisky – Compass Box<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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A 2015 release from the folks at Compass Box – This Is Not A Luxury Whisky takes inspiration from ‘The Treachery of Images”, a 1929 painting by Belgian surrealist artist, Ren\u00e9 Magritte. The painting shows a pipe, with the caption beneath reading “Ceci n’est pas une pipe.” (which translates to “This is not a pipe.”).<\/p>\n

Y’see, what Compass Box are trying to do with this release is make people think both about their own idea of what a luxury whisky is and about the whisky in the bottle, which is a pretty spectacular blended Scotch whisky. So have a taste and have a ponder…<\/p>\n

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3.\u00a0Bowmore Mizunara Cask Finish<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Single malt Scotch whisky from Bowmore distillery on Islay, made up of different vintages from the 1990s (so around 15-25 years old), finished in Japanese Mizunara oak! This is the first time that Mizunara casks have been exported from Japan, a benefit of the fact that Bowmore is owned by Beam Suntory<\/em>. Whiskies exhibiting Bowmore’s signature style were selected for this experiment and we expect the 2000 bottles produced to be extremely sought after!<\/p>\n

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4.\u00a0Paul John Peated Select Cask<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Peated whisky from the Paul John range of single malts produced in Goa. This particular expression was matured in ex-bourbon barrels before being bottled at cask strength (a pleasing 55.5% ABV) without chill filtration. A prime example of the gorgeous whisky distilleries in India are producing.<\/p>\n

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5. Kiln Embers – Wemyss Malts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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This ought to tickle the fancy of peated whisky lovers – Kiln Embers, a new blended malt Scotch whisky from Wemyss Malts. They say it features double the amount of smoky Islay whisky than Peat Chimney, another excellent expression of theirs. It’s a limited edition release of 12,000 bottles.<\/p>\n

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I’ve never been a huge fan of “top 5\/10\/20” lists, especially when it comes to something as subjective as whisky. Here’s therefore more of a “the best\/surprising\/original\/waow whiskies I had this year” list or “You can’t imagine the inner struggle with myself while putting this list together” Whisky Awards (ok, then you may ask why I decided to come up with this article if it …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[365],"tags":[209,369,242,367,368,241,366],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3773"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3852,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773\/revisions\/3852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}